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How to have a Lazy Garden in a Cold Climate

I’ll be totally honest with you. My garden is lousy this year. I may be an Alaskan Master Gardener, but with no time to do anything in the garden, there just isn’t much happening with it this year. A good garden can so often be something that is completely out of your hands, so I’ve decided that I need a lazy garden in a cold climate.

A homesteader who is lazy about gardening??? I know, crazy, right? But it so often wears on you. Planting and caring for seedlings, nurturing them along, hardening them off, carefully transplanting, watering and weeding throughout the summer… only to hope you get a good harvest. Last year our garden was almost non-existent thanks to the shrews eating almost all of my seedlings before I transplanted them. Before that? The weeds won. My job had me away from the homestead too much to even consider pulling weeds.

Growing up, so often I would hear my mom say she was done with gardening. It was issue after issue. One summer never got above 55 degrees and it rained almost every day and nothing grew. Another time a moose broke through the fence and ate everything and then there was the year the Dall sheep came down out of the mountains to eat it all. And don’t even get me started on the slugs…

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IdlewildAlaska

I'm an Alaskan wife with a dream of a self sufficient life and a love of reading, knitting, and writting. I love working in my home to become more self-sufficient and turning my little acre into a homestead! Read all about my little homestead at www.idlewildalaska.com